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Thursday Oct 12, 2006

An Open Invitation to Portal vendors - Join the PRP project

A JSR 168 portlet is a standards based plugin to a Portal Server.

Portal Vendors typically maintain a catalog of portlets in online repositories (like this and this).

What if a developer using Portal X can, on the fly, download a portlet from the catalog of Portal Y ?

Sounds interesting ? That is what the Portlet Repository Protocol project is trying to achieve.

With the Portlet Repository Protocol project, we are trying to define a common Web Service that can be used to front-end any portlet repository. Any portal that can talk this Web Service will be free to the leverage the service provided by any of the online portlet repositories.

This effort is currently endorsed by Sun and JBoss, and we welcome any other interested party to join us. For more details, check out the Portlet Repository Protocol page and join the discuss@prp.dev.java.net mailing list.

Posted at 04:11PM Oct 12, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portlet  |  Comments[2]

Comments:

I think it's cool in theory, but from what i've seen so far... the types of portlets that are in repositories are just toys. Who really needs another RSS portlet, a bookmarks portlet, and a notepad portlet? Don't get me wrong, I want portlet technology to succeed very much... but I think its power lies in proprietary portlets that people actually would find useful to get work done.

Posted by Brian K on October 12, 2006 at 06:30 PM IST #

Yes, currently many of the portlets are toys, but also keep in mind that Sun (and others) have corporate initiatives to OS their portlets. As this happens, you will see more of the "enterprise portlets" we've all been waiting for. ;-)

Posted by Roy Russo on October 12, 2006 at 06:46 PM IST #

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